What a terrible collection. All the best matches happened from 88-91.. and you skipped over 90% of them?! Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect.. Warrior vs. Rude for the IC title, Mega Powers vs The Mega Bucks.. all of these classics are missing.. I have the box set, so luckily, I wont need to waste my money on this set..

No new interviews were recorded, no talking heads, no new material. All of the moments were presented in the exact same form that they were on the original PPVs, which we already own. It sucked. And it was lazy. And you haven’t addressed the 2 hours of unused disc space on the countdown disc.

I’d have honestly preferred a documentary type style like True Story of WM and I think the RR set had over a countdown like the SSeries. You may gst your countdown portion if they ever release a RAW 30 or 35 set counting down the best moments in the show’s history but that means dvd repeats.

No Vincenzzzzzo, hence your thumbs down! The comment section is only designed to praise every single release WWE comes out with. Me personally, I’m looking very forward to this year’s upcoming Brock Lesnar set. 9 hours of suplexes! and a bonus disc with nothing on it since we haven’t seen Brock in months!

SAB, the original commenter said he knew the match listing wouldn’t be good if the listing is being released so soon. I believe WHUT’s point is how would the match listing be any better, no matter when the listing is released? It’s still going to be the same matches anyway.

I think what the original poster meant was if it was a more exciting match listing they would’ve waited and drummed up interest before posting it, but instead they just threw it out there early because they knew we wouldn’t like it anyway. I dunno, something like that. I think he was talking about when the listing was released, not the release of the DVD set itself.

from a “die hard” collector standpoint, that makes this compilation basically worthless (as much as many of us love some oldschool SummerSlam reports, we’re not going to pay money just for that, right?).

(although considering what an awful rushjob the Survivor Series seemed to have been, the home video department probably did us a favor)

2011: Orton vs Christian, Cena vs Punk – Orton and Christian in my eyes never had a bad match against each other and Cena and Punk were some of the greatest rivals of each other’s respective wrestling careers.

2013: Punk vs Lesnar – along with the already included Bryan vs Orton, this alongside that match are tied for mstch of the night 2013’s Summerslam.

2015: Fatal 4 Way Tag Team Title match, Cena vs Rollins, Taker vs Lesnar – loved the Fatal 4 Way. It was around this time New Day started getting over. Cena vs Rollins was an absolute hsrd worked, hard fought match. Taker vs Lesnar was a match the crowd (I was there so I know) was into start to finish!

2016: Demon Balor vs Seth Rollins – Banks vs Charlotte is already included. To me this is the other match that deserves to be on the dvd. Those who’ve seen the match already know why. For those that don’t know why, watch it.

This is what I believe is the best of Summerslam that’s missing from the 30 Years of Summerslam match listing. I skipped some years either bc I don’t remember those Summerslam events or didn’t think anything from those years were worth adding to the dvd’s match listing. If you believe I left something out that should’ve been included, feel free to add it rather than attack or criticize me for leaving it out.

Great list of matches but I’d leave out Test vs Shane and Taker vs JBL Shane’s had better matches in his career. By 2004, JBL did reach the top as Champion but I felt his in ring was a bit slowed down compared to his explosive Acolytes/APA days. But hey that’s just my opinion. The crowd was disrespectful during Taker vs JBL with their wave and I wouldn’t want WWE to take up disc space w/that disrespect when there’s other matches they could add instead. I added my own match additions list in a separate comment but I just thought of 3 more that could be added to the set:

They could always replace some matches w/other ones. Or if this set sells well enough which I feel is unlikely they could have a follow up that includes the missing matches. That maybe why they left those matches off this set, in hopes that it’d sell good enough to warrant another set of SSlam matches.

It is a shame that so many PPVs have gone unrecognised with the match selections, but at the same time they only have 3 discs and 9 hours of space, so you can’t have it all. Hopefully they fill in the blanks for the missing years in the Recaps.

True about the amount of discs and the obvious result of the amount being 3. But they could always if they chose to add a 4th disc or 4-5 discs. While this still won’t mean that every fan’s wishlists will be fully featured, more discs does mean more matches along with enticing more purchases which’ll mean better sales though that’ll depend on the content of the extra disc(s.)

Yeah, we pretty much all thought the same thing about the Survivor Series set, but like you said, it’s a cash grab with minimal effort put in, so they don’t care. They’re targetting the non-collectors/casual fans who don’t own all the PPVs with this one.

There’s nothing surprising in that listing. For me it’s missing Bret/Perfect from 1991, the Shawn/Razor Ladder Match from 1995 and the Edge/Undertaker HIAC Match from 2008. I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for the HHH/Rock/Angle Triple Threat from 2000 as well.

Given I’ve got all the Summerslams on DVD this isn’t an essential purchase for me but the collector in me will still pick this up at some point

Glad to see they’re filling up most of the disc space unlike the Survivor Series set, but I’m still not excited for this set in the slightest. Also, what is WWE’s obsession with that one-sided glorified squash match between Lesnar and Cena at Summerslam 2014? They included it in their ‘100 Greatest Matches’ book too. How on earth is it a match that they feel should be picked out for compilations?

Lesnar/Cena was garbage and amazes me that Dave “plans may change” Meltzer rated that crap 3.5 stars…just a one sided squash match that basically started the lazy Lesnar we have now with his suplex spams.

I’m gonna risk getting negative feedback here, but besides being the 30th Anniversary, what exactly is the point of this set? This seems like a very cheap cash-in and because I own all of these matches already, I can literally make this set at home for myself. This set seems like a pretty big waste. “Then don’t buy it!” Don’t worry, I won’t.